BROCKTON – The Brockton Area Branch of the NAACP is hosting a voter information forum on Tuesday, Aug. 5 featuring the two Democratic candidates for Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey and Warren Tolman.

While much attention has been paid to the race to see who will replace Gov. Deval Patrick in the Statehouse’s corner office, Stephen Bernard, the president of the Brockton branch of the NAACP, said it is important that voters pay attention to the other races as well.

“It’s a very important office where they enforce the laws of the state,” Bernard said about the attorney general’s office. “The work of the attorney general’s office affects us in every aspect of our life.”

The forum, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and forum will begin at 6 p.m. and last until 7 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served.

The event will be led by a moderator and four-person panel that will pose several questions to the two candidates before the event is opened up to audience questions.

Warren Tolman is a former state legislator, who has spent the last decade as a practicing attorney at the law firm of Holland and Knight.

Maura Healey has served in the Office of the Attorney General for seven years, where she worked as chief of the Civil Rights Division and directed Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau and the Business and Labor Bureau.

In June, Tolman narrowly edged out Healey for the Democratic nomination at the party’s convention, winning it 52 percent to 48 percent.

Healey and Tolman will square off again on Sept. 9 in the Democratic with the winner taking on Republican candidate John Miller in the general election.

Incumbent, Martha Coakley, decided not to seek another term as attorney general and has launched a gubernatorial campaign instead.